Tour Beijing Journal
Field notes from Beijing and beyond: routes, photos, small cautions, and practical ideas for travelers who like to know the road before they go.
Plan your Dalian tour? Dalian is the second largest city in Liaoning Province, in the northeast of China and the largest port in northern China as wel...
Plan your Northeast China tour? Panjin (盘锦) in Liaoning Province is a big draw featuring its magnificent red sea beaches. Panjin is relatively a new c...
Plan your Shanghai tour in autumn? If you are an enthusiastic autumn leaf peeper, you won't be disappointed by the seemingly concrete dominated metrop...
Plan your Shanghai tour in November? November is a transition month from the colorful autumn to the bleak winter in Shanghai. For an avid leaf peeper,...
Plan your Shenyang tour? Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province, boasts its own Forbidden City, imperial tombs, resourceful museums and sever...
Heilongjiang (黑龙江) literally means "Black Dragon River". It is China's northern most province, named after the same name borderline river separating C...
Plan your Northeast China Tour? Northeast China is popularly known as 东北 (Dongbei ) in Chinese and historically as "Manchuria". It is mainly composed...
Plan your Shanghai tour? Shanghai is the most visited city in China with numerous photo opportunities. If you visit Shanghai for the first time, and l...
Yongdingmen (永定门) is normally translated as " Yongding Gate" or "Yongdingmen Gate Tower". Here "Yongding" means "Lasting Peace" and "men" literally me...
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